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Problems with the Console Generation
Normally, I constantly believe that the video game industry is on the edge of innovation. Each generation of consoles have accomplished feats that most believed in impossible. From the Pong to the Nintendo Entertainment System and from the Super Nintendo to the Sony PlayStation; these leaps were amazing. But now with the current next-generation system in the midst of their shelf lives, I don’t see the innovation happening again.
These days, a lot of gamers are concerned with innovation, and the push towards the future of gaming. A lot of us think of game innovations like LittleBigPlanet, and how it’s different from any other game. Or we consider changes in genre, like how amazing it was when Rock Band came out with an array of instruments to be played like a controller. But there’s more to innovation than that, and all of it is important to us as gamers.
Can you remember when we played video games way back in the day? Saving was a rarity, the controller was like holding a brick, memory cards were mysteriously formatted, and playing online was limited to a couple of games on the Dreamcast? Times have changed, and you can hardly walk into a GameStop without running into a crazy innovation in gaming. Let’s discuss some of those innovations and see if your favorite makes the list!